“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
“If we could sleep twenty-four hours a day, we would soon return to the primordial slime, the beatitude of that perfect torpor before Genesis-the dream of every consciousness sick of itself.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
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